PRACTICAL STRATEGIES
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Trainings
Practical Strategies offers a variety of workshops and resources designed to help you and your team better serve your community.
​​​Trainees have included, the National Harm Reduction Coalition, Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services, Inc., Simmons School of Social Work, Cal State Northridge School of Social Work, Cambridge Police Department, Massachusetts State Senate, Inland Empire Harm Reduction, Onestop Harm Reduction, Plumas County Public Health Department, Fenway Community Health Center and more.​
Topics may include principles of harm reduction, person-centered care, the context of substance use, risks and risk reduction strategies, the history of harm reduction, evidence-based models, MOUD, neuroplasticity, and more
Topics may include opioids vs. opiates, fentanyl, the science of overdose and naloxone, rescue breathing, wooden chest syndrome, risk reduction, using a bag valve mask, drug checking, overdose aftercare, safety planning, 911 Good Samaritan laws, MOUD, and the dangers of high-dose naloxone
Topics may trauma and the limbic system, hierarchy of needs, boundaries, mental health crises, overamping, non-violent communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, rapport-building, environmental awareness, and rational detachment
Topics may include stigma, person-centered care, non-verbal communication, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, risk reduction, overdose prevention, and evidence-based harm reduction practices.
Topics may include trauma and the limbic system, hierarchy of needs, boundaries, mental health crises, overamping, non-violent communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, rapport-building, environmental awareness, rational detachment, and more.
Topics may include routes of administration, substance-specific risks, risk reduction strategies, risk reduction supplies, overdose prevention overamping, sexual risks, safer sex work, and non-judgemental risk reduction counseling
Collective Grief and Healing
Refuge, ritual, and resilience
Topics may include types of grief, effects of grief, ambiguous loss for social service providers, strategies for building resilience, the importance of individual and collective ritual, providing refuge as a team, policy and practice recommendations for organizations, and 'expressions of grief' art activity.
Topics may include HIV, Hep B, Hep C, safe syringe collection and disposal, best practices for other potentially infectious material, standard operating procedures, PEP, and more
Topics may include the history of drug policy, xenophobia, moral panic, media hysteria, stigma, the iron law of prohibition, and decriminalization
Topics include effects of HIV and Hepatitis C, treatment, prevention, testing, health disparities, innovative strategies, and more
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